Garment-loop.



C. S. COMSTOCK, Sn.

GARMENT LOOP.

APPLICATION map MAR. 17. 1916.

1,232,563, Patented July 10, 1917.

INVENTOR '1 ITNESSES: J/Zu/% I By Attorneys,

' to certain disadvantages.

GARMENT-LOOP.

Application filed March 17, 1916.

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Be it known that I. CLARK S. CoMsTocK, S12, a citizen. of the United States of America, residing in East Orange, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Garment-Loops, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to garment loops, and aims to provide certain improvements therein.

The object of the invention is to provide a garment loop made of a single piece of wire which shall have the maximum rigidity consistent with lightness of material, and cheapness of construction. For the cheap overall trade an effort has been made to produce a loop which requires the least amount of metal, and the best results have been heretofore attained by the provision of a triangular-shaped structure constructed of wire, one side of which has been adapted to receive the strap and the other two sides of which at their meeting point have been rounded to receive the button shank. In prior constructions the ends of the wire have been brought together at about the middle of the strap bar and have been provided with a sleeve extending substantially the full length of the bar, which sleeve has been indented to prevent the ends of the wire from separating. The use of a sleeve or ferrule has required an eXtra operation to apply it, and the loop has been subject It has not had that strength and rigidity which is desirable, and in many cases the loop has been found to separate from or pull out of the sleeve. According to the present invention I construct a loop of this type which has no supplemental or additional parts, and in which great strength and rigidity is obtained. In the preferred construction 01' the invention I form a loop in which the strap bar is integral throughout, and I join the ends of the wire at one side of the loop by forming the two ends with interlocking eyes. T. have found that if the eyes are located at a portion of the side of the loop which is somewhat nearer the strap bar than the button-receiving recess, such eyes will not interfere either with the strap or with the button, so that the strap lies flat under all conditions, and the button is not impeded or displaced in the operation of engaging it with the loop.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 10, 1917.

Serial No. 84,835.

In the drawings, which illustrate one form of the invention,

Figure l is a plan of the loop in its preferred form.

Fig. 2 is a side elevation thereof.

Referring to the drawings, let A indicate the loop as a whole which is formed with a strap bar B and side bars C and D. At the point of juncture of the side bars C and D, they are mounted to form a button recess E.

According to the present invention the loop is formed of a single piece of wire, the ends of which are fastened together by eyes a 6 each passing through the other. suitable connections can be substituted. Preferably the ends of the wire are joined at a point which is intermediate between the strap bar B and the ends of the side bars C and D. The connection is illustrated as made in the side bar C. By displacing the connection below the strap bar B the latter is left unbroken and forms a strap seat which is smooth and even, and on which the strap draws equally in all parts under strain. At the same time the connection is sufliciently high above the button-receiving recess E to avoid any interference with the button as the latter is inserted through the loop and moves down into its seat. It will be understood that the bars C and D form guides for the button in this operation, and that usually when the loop is passed over the button the button enters the space between the sides at a point which is fairly well below the strap bar B. As the loop is then pulled up the button shank strikes one of the side bars and is guided into the recess E. When the connection is made, as shown in the drawings, a satisfactorily long guide is formed for the button shank not only on the side D, but also on the side C where the connection is made. It is very desirable that the connection shall be made in the line of the side where it is located, so that the loop has a neat and symmetrical appearance. Furthermore, in the triangular loop shown the least possible amount of wire is used for a loop of given proportions, and the strain on the side bars is very largely lengthwise. In the construction shown this is true not only of the side D, but also of the side G. Preferably the eye a is turned in the plane of the loop, and the eye Z) is turned in a plane which is at right angles to the plane of the loop.

It is preferred to make the eyes a I; so that Other they interlock rigidly, but some degree of play may be permitted for the eye I) by so forming the eye a that the eye I) is capable of moving somewhat therein.

Vhile I have shown and described the invention as applied to a triangular loop, it will be understood that it can be also applied to loops of other construction. It will also be understood that modifications may be made therein without departing from the invention.

WVhat I claim is A substantially rigid garment loop formed of a single piece of wire, bent into a substantially triangular form, the three sides being straight and one of the corners of the triangle being rounded and expanded to form a partially restricted button-receiving recess E, and the ends of the single piece of wire being joined by loops. formed on each and relatively tightly interlinked so as to form a substantially rigid connection, the loops being on one of the straight sides adj acent the recess E and at a distance from the corners that the interlinked loops do not interfere with a strap looped over the side opposite the recess E nor with the entrance of a button into said recess E.

In Witness whereof, I have hereunto signed my name in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

CLARK S. COMSTOCK, SR.

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